Research Catalog

Title

Dynamic testing : the nature and measurement of learning potential / Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko.

Author

Sternberg, Robert J.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Grigorenko, Elena L.

Description

xi, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The goal of this book is to present and evaluate the concept of dynamic testing. Unlike static tests such as the SAT or IQ tests, dynamic testing emphasizes learning potential rather than past learning accomplishments. The book opens with a theoretical framework of abilities as forms of developing expertise. It then continues with an introduction to dynamic testing and then a capsule history of dynamic testing. The book also reviews the approaches of Feuerstein and Budoff and other diverse approaches to dynamic testing. Sternberg and Grigorenko present their own three-prong approach to dynamic testing along with two case studies using dynamic testing in their own research. The authors conclude that dynamic testing has enormous potential which has not yet been tapped.

Subject

• Learning ability > Testing
• Intelligence tests > Evaluation
• Transfer of training
• Transfer, Psychology
• Intelligence tests > Evaluation
• Learning ability > Testing
• Transfer of training
• Intelligenztest
• Lerntest
• Leervermogen
• Intelligentietests
• Transfer van training
• Psychologie de l'apprentissage
• Tests d'intelligence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-209) and index.

Contents

Part I. Theoretical Framework: -- 1. Abilities as forms of developing expertise -- Part II. The Nature of Dynamic Testing: -- 2. An introduction to dynamic testing -- 3. A capsule history of dynamic testing -- Part III. Leading Modern Approaches to Dynamic Testing: -- 4. The approach of Feuerstein -- 5. The approach of Budoff -- 6. Diverse approaches to dynamic testing -- 7. A three-prong approach to dynamic testing -- Part IV. Two Case Studies using Dynamic Testing: -- 8. Using dynamic testing to reveal hidden potential -- 9. Combining instruction with assessment: measuring foreign-language learning ability -- 10. Measurement aspects of dynamic testing: quantifying change.

ISBN

• 0521771285
• 9780521771283
• 052177814X
• 9780521778145

LCCN

2001025402

OCLC

• ocm46343155
• 46343155
• SCSB-1237354

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library